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JS Code Of The Week: get_structure();

My newest JavaScript code snippet displays the object hierarchy of a given object and all its childnodes. This comes in pretty handy when working with tables and most certainly even more so when working with dynamic tables. Sometimes I get so worked up into a project that I can't even think straight and comprehend the invisible processes behind the scenes anymore. Now I have one more neat little helper to prevent this from happening ;^)

And of course, this doesn't work with every browser. I worked hard to make sure of it ;^p Noooo, of course it didn't happen deliberately. But hey, only the Firefox bitches around this time - IE does display it just like my good ol' Opera. [...]
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First let's create a table. Doing that in plain HTML and then showing my function wouldn't really proove the point of it, so let's create a dynamic table (and load this function with <body onload="initthistable();">). I used a "nameless" table (without ID) and threw it into an existing div-box named "daDiv". You can do it however you want, actually.

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function initthistable()
{
var i,j, Out = "";

Out += "<table>";
for ( i = 0; i < 4; i++ )
{
Out += "<tr>";
for ( j = 0; j < 3; j++ )
Out += "<td>text "+ i +" "+ j +"</td>";
Out += "</tr>";
}
Out += "</table>";

document.all.daDiv.innerHTML = Out;
}
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Add a button to your web page whose onclick loads my function with your root-object (onclick='get_structure( document.all.daDiv );') and this is what you should get:

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DIV, daDiv
 TABLE
  TBODY
   TR
    TD
     #text
    TD
     #text
    TD
     #text
   TR
    TD
     #text
    TD
     #text
    TD
     #text
   TR
    TD
     #text
    TD
     #text
    TD
     #text
   TR
    TD
     #text
    TD
     #text
    TD
     #text

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Don't like it? Then you can as well quit reading any further (-.-') ... otherwise, here's what my function looks like. Have fun playing with it.

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// displays the structural hierarchy of a given object and its childnodes
function get_structure( Obj )
{
var StrucPop = window.open("", "StrucPop", "width=400,height=650,left=400,top=50,scrollbars"),
Out = "";

Out = get_structure_recursive_init( Obj );

StrucPop.document.write( "<html><head> <title>Structure of "+ Obj +"</title> </head>"
+"<body bgcolor=#ffaa44><font face='Terminal' Size=2>" );
StrucPop.document.write( Out );
StrucPop.document.write( "</font></body></html>" );
StrucPop.document.close();
}

// initializes the recursive function that displays the structure of a given object
function get_structure_recursive_init( Obj )
{
if ( Obj != null ) // if it has an ID then print it, too
return Obj.nodeName+ ( ( Obj.id ) ? ", "+ Obj.id : "" )+ GSR_sub( Obj.firstChild, " " )
}

// recursively displays a structure (the actual function that finally does it)
function GSR_sub( Obj, Prefix )
{
if ( Obj == null )
return "";
else
return "<br>"+ Prefix+ Obj.nodeName+ ( ( Obj.id ) ? ", "+ Obj.id : "" )
// depth-first, then same-level-siblings
+GSR_sub( Obj.firstChild, Prefix +" " ) +GSR_sub( Obj.nextSibling, Prefix );
}
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Labels: programming

Super Mario Artworks

I found this article that features a lengthy gallery of the characters Mario and Luigi who are displayed in more than one impressive art style.
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Making Of Metal Gear Solid

Hi, real quick, let me psot a YouTube video containing a documentary about Metal Gear Solid 4 that can be found on the (a?) BluRay. It is called "Mgs4 Documentary *Blu ray rip* Making Of" (1o parts). Despite the excellent BluRay source quality the subtitles at some points are unreadable. I don't apologize for that - it's not my video. Embed is disabled so just go there.
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Labels: video, videogame news

wooden.forcedRemodeling(); ?

I recently read that Geocities is closing which is why I am concerned that some stuff of this website won't work anymore. Frankly I don't remember which file is stored on which account and website so theoretically everything related to my blog could, you know, EXPLODE \(O_O )/ *poof* Thy End Is Nigh!, leaving nothing but a devastating crater in the vast hinterlands of the internets - but I'm confident in my ability to err. [...]
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Labels: personal

The Curious Case Of My Malevolent Machine

I had a problem, a problem with the internet. Or maybe the internet had a problem with me - either way, my online options were pretty restricted, but curiously not fully. That's what troubled me for the last few weeks: how could I connect to the internet just a little bit?

Long story short: a new router fixed the problem - so I guess the old router was broken? Anyway, luckily I had a spare machine that was catching dust for over a year. One hardware reconfiguration and one dreaded call later I could access the wide space of the iNets again. With all my machines.

But how do you recognize that it's the routers fault and not the one of the application, server, user, cable, driver, et cetera? To remind myself of this colorful event and maybe to aid those who have similar problems with their internet connectivity I decided to blog-psot about it. Well, short story long: what follows are my notes that I created in the process of dealing with this freak situation. [...]
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Labels: IT, personal

Finding a DVD on eBay

I very recently bought two Jackie Chan DVDs that can be found in the so called "Armour Of God Pack" and, again, I did those nasty mistakes that I tend to do when I buy a DVD via eBay. I hope, in the future I can avoid these mistakes if I sit down for once and write them down. [...]
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Labels: memo, personal

Awgust oh nein

I went to the GamesCom this year (which is 2oo9, which makes it GamesCom 2oo9 - yay, now I can find this article by searching for "GamesCom 2oo9" ...) and I took .. some photos. Initially I thought and I hoped I'd do more but there really wasn't that much that appealed to me, visually. Except for the booth babes who sometimes surprised me by turning away whenever I produced my camera. I thought it was their job to let the conventioneers take pictures of them - among other things. Whatever. Maybe they didn't want ME to have a photo of them in scantily clothed fashion. Again, whatever. Maybe I lost it, "that certain sight" that helped me see things, special things, and take photos that I like, photos that I once in a while courageously tag as "cool". Or maybe I never had it ... [...]
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On top of that I'd like to add a quick memo to myself: gaming conventions only look cool when read about in an article. Or the "internets". IMHO. Actually being there can turn out to be very boring quite fast - especially if you have to wait in line all the time. And by "all the time" I mean several hours for a single line and several times for the really interesting venues - like the booths that displayed God Of War 3 or Modern Warfare 2. And then it's not even new stuff, levels you already know from the past E3. Or just a video trailer. You don't really get that when you read the articles or see videos about the games that were shown there. You don't actually find a video in the iNet that shows how long you wait in line to see such a game. Well, this is certainly true for most conventions. So, whenever I might find a portal again that is capable of throwing me into this strange and fascinating dimension of odd time progression I might re-read these lines and reconsider my chances of actually having fun ...

Well, to return to the major point of this psoting, I would upload said sparse photos if I hadn't found out recently that my new PC monitor (which is now my primary monitor out of two monitors in a dual monitor setup), you know, the monitor I used to edit images in photoshop for the last few weeks, has a major green tint. Major! Yes, in retrospect I screwed up so many images in that time that I don't even want to open photoshop anymore. I don't even know if it's the monitor, the DVI cable or the graphics card that is the source of the problem. I feel like I'm in school again where this constantly happened to me. I'm so fucking tired.

Anyway, to round shit up let me tell you what to do if you have a Wii™ game (most assumably a WiiWare or Virtual Console title) that loads up the preview image / animation for its channel in the Wii™ Main Menu but reboots the console when you click on start. Tales Of Monkey Island: Chapter 1: Launch Of The Narwhal (or TOMI 1 for short) has been one of these games for me. Technically you could say, the console needs to be updated, but don't be afraid of bricking because properly updating is far from difficult. Just never use out-of-region updates for your specific region, you know, the ultimate ever-true rule of Wii™ homebrewing. In fact, there are a ton of links and forum threads out there that relate to this topic. But anyway I went off-topic.

I found this very interesting site that explains the "mechanism" behind the different IOSes a bit which is what made me realize that I need certain IOSes for that game to run on my console. After I googled around to find out which ones I needed, I got them and installed them via the WAD Manager and now the game runs smoothly. Well, as smoothly as it can run. The Wii™ obviously doesn't seem to be the primary platform this game was created for (don't enter the Pause Menu at the docks after the green cloud appeared) ... hm, maybe I'll do a review for that game. Just maybe.
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Labels: memo, personal

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JS Code Of The Week: get_structure();

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Super Mario Artworks

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Making Of Metal Gear Solid

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Finding a DVD on eBay

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Awgust oh nein

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